Republicans rip Mick Mulvaney’s ‘rough patch’

Senate Republicans are astounded by the troubled performances from the acting White House chief of staff.

Fighting for President Donald Trump is one thing. But Republicans aren’t eager to defend a struggling White House acting chief of staff they’ve never really loved.

Mick Mulvaney’s two stumbling public appearances over the past week have deepened the president’s Ukraine scandal, undercut a chief GOP talking point and left the party stunned and frustrated as Republican lawmakers look to hold off Democrats’ impeachment drive.

Iowa’s Chuck Grassley, the most senior GOP senator, put it this way: Mulvaney is “probably somebody that didn’t know what they were talking about.”

View the complete October 21 article by Burgess Everett and Marianne Levine on the Politico website here.